Jordan Staal News: Pro Sports Daily

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November 7

Pittsburgh Tribune Review

"Penguins center Jordan Staal offered only a few words Friday to dispute a suggestion that he is a more productive player when skating less than 20 minutes during a game. "The more I play, the better I feel usually," he said after a practice at Sharks Ice that lasted more than 90 minutes. Getting Staal top-tier minutes will be the plan tonight when the Penguins (12-4-0, 24 points) try to regroup from a disappointing loss Thursday nigh at Los Angeles, where they allowed four third-period goals, in a showdown with the San Jose Sharks (11-4-2, 24 points) at HP Pavilion. A breakdown of his statistics over coach Dan Bylsma's 41 regular-season games with the Penguins indicate that Staal, still ..."

Penguins' success centers on top trio

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October 30

Columbus Dispatch

"Sidney Crosby is the marketing centerpiece of the NHL. He is the captain of a Stanley Cup-winning team, a former league scoring champion and former most valuable player -- all before the age of 23. Statistically speaking, though, Crosby is only the second-best center on the Pittsburgh Penguins the past two-plus seasons. The top honor belongs to Evgeni Malkin, whose blend of size and skill makes him the envy of almost every other hockey player not named Alex Ovechkin. Medically speaking, Malkin isn't fit to play second-line center tonight in Nationwide Arena against the Blue Jackets because of a shoulder injury. That honor belongs to Jordan Staal, the towering forward with a condor's ..."

Penguins expand Staal's role

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October 10

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"Jordan Staal has 11 regular-season game-winning goals in the NHL. Only one of those, though, came in overtime. And only one completed a hat trick. Which is why, anytime the Penguins venture into the Air Canada Centre, where they will face Toronto at 7:08 p.m. today, Staal can't help but recall the events of Feb. 10, 2007, which rank among the individual high points in his NHL career. It was the night he became the youngest player (18 years, 153 days) in league history to score three goals in a game while leading the Penguins to a 6-5 victory against the Maple Leafs in a game televised on Hockey Night in Canada. "To get an OT winner for a hat trick is pretty special," he said yesterday. ..."

Crosby, Fleury, Staal selected for Olympic camp

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July 3

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"For Sidney Crosby, being on the list of those invited to Team Canada's Olympic orientation camp Aug. 24-27 in Calgary was a formality. There is virtually no chance the popular and prolific center will be left off the final roster of his country's team for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver in February. For a couple of his Penguins teammates, strong play in their recent run to the Stanley Cup championship helped earn them a spot among the 46 players headed to the minicamp. Steve Yzerman, executive director of the Canadian Olympic team, said as much yesterday after camp invitations were sent out. As vice president of the NHL Detroit Red Wings, he was impressed with goaltender Marc-Andre ..."

Staals see series from both sides

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May 25

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

columnist Gene Collier

"Do you think they've been tempted yet, Henry and Linda Staal? Do you imagine it's easy, sitting up there in Thunder Bay, Ontario, watching the first matchup of siblings in an NHL conference final in 35 years, wondering how competition suddenly became depredation? Their son's hockey team is torturing their other son's hockey team, which is the way they're compelled to view what the rest of us understand relatively dispassionately as this 3-0 headlock in which the Penguins are suffocating the Carolina Hurricanes. Players being unavailable to the media yesterday, there was no way of knowing whether Jordan Staal had received any messages from anyone in Thunder Bay, maybe a parent or another of ..."